[quote]pittbulll wrote:
[quote]countingbeans wrote:
Having a doctor treat you isn’t a right.
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This is where you are wrong ,[/quote]
No. It isn’t.
You have the right to take your property, and trade it to a doctor for his service.
You do not have the “right” to have a doctor treat you. The doctor has to choose to treat you, you can’t force him by virtue of your “rights” to do it. So you either hope the doctor wants to do it out of the kindness of his heart, or you give the doctor some property of value to treat you.
Your right is access to the doctor, because within the Doctor’s pursuit of happiness he offers his or her services in exchange for porperty. Now because the two pursuits of happiness (your’s for the service, his for property) come together in the market place, you end up with the right to access.
If no one ever chose to be a doctor, you wouldn’t have the right to access, because in that case someone would be forced to practice medicine.
So no, you don’t have the right to force anyone to do anything for you. You have the right to participate in the market. Now if the market is FUBAR, it needs to be fixed, but that doesn’t make healthcare a right.
A doctor’s service is just that, a service. A doctor’s service isn’t a “right”, not at all.
[quote]Your statement is so incorrect it is silly
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What is silly is what you are calling a “right”.